Word: naturedness
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With a low percentage of bad puns, sternly denying himself more than an occasional nibble at his favorite whimsy-pastry, in Swiss Family Manhattan Christopher Morley has written a satire that is so mild-mannered, so good-natured there is no sting in it.
When Dr. David Saville Muzzey called Georgia's 18th Century colonists "poor debtors and criminals" in his History of the American People he raised a tempest of protest from Georgia's 20th Century citizens. Fortnight ago when the Savannah Board of Education decided to ask Publishers Ginn & Co...
Nearly 40 years ago Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. and his sister-in-law Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt (later Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont) fought a battle for the leadership of the Vanderbilt Clan. Their respective daughters Gertrude and Consuelo were unwilling pawns. Cornelius moved first by building an enormous renaissance palazzo...
Author of the proposal was the Dairy Advisory Committee, an agency of dairy cooperatives. The committee found that the number of milk cows on farms has been increasing for four years, is likely to continue to increase if left unchecked, eventually bringing low prices. Chairman of the committee is Harry...
On the Maritime Council a good natured Admiral taught him what he liked to call Rule No. 6, a rule of conduct that was more and more on the Morrow tongue in recent months: "Don't take yourself too seriously." As a lawyer, as a banker, he once summed up...